626 A, D, 1412, 



and fend him information. We are not informed, what effect thefe 

 meafures produced : but we find by a letter from Henry to the magif- 

 trates of Bergen, dated 22'' September 141 1 *, that the EngUfh had been 

 treated as the aggreflbrs : and the affair appears to have been ftill unfet- 

 tled in December 141 5. [Fcedera, V. viii, pp. 684, 700, 722, 736 ; V. ix, 



A 415-] 



March 5"" — The Englifh were alfo infulted in Portugal. A fhip of 

 200 tuns belonging to a nierchant of London, and carrying a merchant 

 or fupercargo, and a purfer, befides her commander, was feized in Lif- 

 bon on a falfe information, after having taken in a cargo of oil, wax, 

 and other merchandize ; but there is no mention of wine. Her com- 

 mander and people were loaded with irons, and obliged to fupport them- 

 felves at their own expenfe in the prifon, wherein they were kept feve- 

 ral weeks, till the «rror was difcovered. Thomas Fauconer f , the own- 

 er, ftated that the freight of his fhip amounted to 6,000 crowns of gold, 

 for which, and the damage and expenfes, he got King Henry to make a 

 demand upon the king of Portugal. [Fiedera, V. viii, p. 727.] 



June 11'" King Henry having written to the magiftrates of Ghentj 



Bruges, Ypres, and the free territory of Flanders, defiring to know, whe- 

 ther they would adhere to the terms of their truce with him, or aflift 

 their earl againfl him, they, preferring the profperity of their trade to 

 the gratification of their earl, anfwered, that they wifhed to preferve 

 peace with England : and .the truce was thereupon proclaimed on both 

 fides. [F^dera, V. viii, pp. 737, 75 1, 756 — MeyeriAmi. Flandr,f. 238 b.] 



June, July ^The king borrowed 10,000 marks from the community 



of the city of London, 400 from Norwich, and other fums from the 

 prelates and nobles, for an expedition to Guienne. \Foedera, V. viii, pp, 

 747-767.] 



July 5"" The king, having given letters of reprifal % to fome merch- 

 ants, from whom two veffels loaded with wine, &c. to the value of 5,250 

 marks, had been taken by a French lord, at the fame time declared, 

 that merchants going to, or returning from, the fiaple at Calais fhould 

 not be liable to feizure in virtue of thofe letters. [Fcedera, V. viii, p. 

 755.] Thus did this favourite town enjoy the privileges of a neutral 

 port §. 



Notwithftanding the turbulent ftate of England during the reign of 



•» It is worthy of notice, that in tUis letter the \_Stoiu's Survey, p. 934. — Fadera, V. ix, pp. 298, 



king appears to rank, the Kiiglilh ni<-rchaiits of 405. J 



Lynne tradiiijj to Ikrgcu among the mcrcliants of \ Letters of marque or reprifal were (rencrally 



the Hanfc ; — ' Mercatorts villte nollrae dc Lrnii, granted for the recovery of private property, where- 



' partes dc Norili Berne pi-xdifts mereantilitcr by the execution of jultice, perhaps injullice, was 



' ufitantes, ex una, c^terofque mercalores de Hanfa, put into the p:'.rty' own hands. Of a general pri- 



' regnum nollrum Anglix mode confimiii frequent- vateerin^ comniiirion om inlhuu.c has occurred in 



' antes, parte ex altera.' the year 1375. Sec above, p. Goo. 



f This gentleman was eleftcd mayor in 1414; § Aiiollier inRancc of the trade with Calais be- 



and in his mayoralty tlic city lent the king 10,000 ing protecleJ from c.ijiture occurs in FuclcrOf K 



-narks, for which he received jewels in pledge, ix, /. ijfi. ■* 



